Dress shirt



March 11, 1930. J, QUIGLE? DRESS SHIRT Filed May 17 1927 1N EN %2/ M TTORNEY Patented Mar. 11, 1930 UNITED STATES EDWARD J. QUIGLEY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY DRESS Application filed May 17,

This invention relates to dress shirts of the type having a starched bosom, and aims to improve the construction and wearing qualities of such shirts.

A particular object is to provide a dress shirt having features of novelty that make it fit the form of the wearer more perfectly which is therefore worn with greater comfort.

The invention also includes certain matters of construction that give the shirt superior wearing qualities by reinforcing points of strain, the reinforcements serving also to give greater stability to the bosom. The reinforcements are further utilized to assist in bending the shirt bosom to conform more nearly to the body of the wearer.

WVhile the preferred form of the invention has been disclosed for purposes of illus- 2 tration it should be understood that various changes may be made in the structure without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings the single figure is a plan view of the reverse side of the front portion of a shirt embodying the invention.

Referring to the drawing more specifically, the reference numeral 10 indicates the front section of the shirt body, this section extending continuously across the front of the shirt. Numerals 11 refer to the shoulder sections of the shirt which are joined to the front section by seams 12. The neckband 13 is attached to the shirt in the usual manner by a seam 14.

The desired stiffness of the shirt bosom is secured by a bosom section 15 of the shape illustrated. This bosom section is formed separately from the shirt body and is composed of several plies of fabric secured toggther around the edges of the section. The section 15 has its upper end fastened to the shirt by being caught in the seams 12 and 14, and is held in place along its vertical edges by seams 16, which terminate at points 17. a considerable distance above the lower edge of the bosom section 15.

In securing the bosom section to the shirt SHIRT 1927. Serial No. 191,976.

body it is necessary to use very close stitching in order to present a neat and sightly outward appearance. Such a close line of stitching has a tendency to cut a slit through the single ply of material comprising the shirt body if the bosom section is stitched to the body without further reinforcement. The invention therefore includes the use of reinforcing strips 18 which are placed on the inside of the shirt and through which 0.0 the lines of stitching 16 pass. The upper ends of strips 18 are caught in seams 12, while their lower ends may be rounded to a point and suitably anchored at 18.

These reinforcing strips are particularly 65 useful in preventing the ends of seams 16 at points 17 from pulling loose from the shirt body, and they strengthen both of the seams 16 and give greater stability to the bosom.

The strips 18 also perform an important function in making the shirt conform to the curve of the wearers chest, since their shrinking action tends to give the bosom a convex shape on its outer side.

The lower end of the shirt bosom extends downwardly in the form of a tongue that is adapted to ride over the top of the trousers to avoid bending and buckling of the bosom.

At about the center of the bosom section the button hole stitching 19 passes through both bosom and body to anchor the bosom at this point.

I claim:

A shirt comprising a body piece extending continuously across the front of the shirt, shoulder sections stitched to the upper end of the body piece at the sides thereof, a bosom section on the outside of the body piece and having its side edges stitched to the body piece by stitching terminating above the lower end of said bosom piece whereby the lower part of the bosom piece is free from the body piece, separate reinforcing strips each stitched to the reverse side of a respective shoulder piece and extending downward and terminating above the bottom of the bosom piece, said reinforcing strips lying flat on the underside of the body piece and extending on opposite sides of the respec- 1 tive bosom stitch lines, said bosom stitch lines extending through said reinforcing strips, and stitching extending around the side and bottom edges of the reinforcing strips and connecting said strips to the body piece independently of the bosom stitch lines.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EDWARD J. QUIGLEY. 

